State of Play in the EU–CELAC Common Research Area

The aim of the study was to identify and assess the spatial diversity of generating of animal and vegetal waste by entities from the agricultural sector in the EU countries along with the determination of the importance of this type of waste in total waste generated in individual countries. Statistical data used in the study were obtained from EUROSTAT. The research period was 2016, while the research area covered 25 EU countries. The data was subjected to quantitative analysis using descriptive and parametric statistics. It was found that animal and vegetal waste has the largest share in the structure of waste from the agricultural sector (accounting for 81.6% of all waste in the agricultural sector in the EU in 2016). It has been shown that generating of vegetal and animal waste in agricultural sector in the EU countries is characterized by spatial diversity. Most of this waste type was generated in Spain and the Netherlands. The dominant position of Spain resulted from significant share of this country in the EU volume of animal faeces, urine and manure generation. High position of the Netherlands was associated with a large share of vegetal waste. France, Germany, Slovakia and Sweden ranked next. Nearly 80% of all analyzed groups of waste came from these countries, which indicates a high degree of spatial concentration of the studied phenomenon. In this context, it can be stated that these countries are predestined to base their development on the concept of the bioeconomy. It is a challenge for the research and development sphere regarding development of innovative ways of managing agricultural vegetal and animal waste.

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Agri-environmental management and rural development: Hungary after EU accession

Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce ◽

10.19041/apstract/2007/1/4 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 35-40

Author(s):

Judit Katonáné Kovács

Keyword(s):

Rural Development ◽

Interdisciplinary Approach ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Research Area ◽

Social Functions ◽

Sustainable Rural Development ◽

Environmental Measures ◽

The Eu

In Hungary, similarly to developed countries, the share of agriculture in the GDP has declined. Even so, preparation of the sector’s long term strategy is crucial, as the role of agriculture exceeds the results represented in the GDP. Environmental and social functions of agriculture are revaluated in developed countries, and consumers at the end of the food chain actually govern the entire process. This is why information plays an increasingly important role, and gives signals (Verbeke, 2005) to the actors in the economy and society. This research area is diverse (including agricultural policy, environmental policy, rural development and sustainable development), and so I applied an interdisciplinary approach and conducted an integrated examination. The results show that in recent decades, the pressure of agriculture on the environment has been lower in Hungary than in the EU-15 and agri-environmental measures have taken hold in all types of land-use systems, even though they are more important in protected areas. Although this development provides a good basis for a long term strategy social capital has lost strength (Csath, 2002), so fostering the creation of internal and external rural networks – one instrument for this could be the Leader programme – is essential for sustainable rural development.

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Editorial

SMS Journal of Enterpreneurship & Innovation ◽

10.21844/smsjei.v2i2.11139 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Prof. P. N. Jha

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Small Businesses ◽

Research Output ◽

Critical Mass ◽

Research Area ◽

The European Union ◽

Research Papers ◽

The World ◽

The Eu

You may subscribe to a notion that the ambitious plan on entrepreneurship and innovation in our country has to be nurtured through emerging technologies, resulting as newly sprouted shoots of scientific researches & investigations carried out globally. According to Unesco's Science Report, the European Union is the world leader in terms of its global share of science researchers (22.2%), ahead of China (19.1%) and the US (16.7%). The EU is admittedly a community of scientific talent which can flow between countries and which can assemble bespoke constellations of cutting-edge labs, industry and small businesses to tackle challenges local and global. Given that the European Research Area produces a major chunk of the world's research output, this collective spirit provides a powerful environment to combine leading players across borders to common advantage. So large is the programme that top teams in about two hundred other nations in the world are easily taken on board as secondary participants. Since the 1980s, global research has rapidly grown more international. The prevalence of scientific research papers co-authored by researchers from more than one country has risen sharply. This, in a nutshell, is how a larger aggregation of countries converts its critical mass into a critical research advantage, globally. But, the recent disaster of Brexit referendum, the exit of the UK from the European Union, on an ugly xenophobia leading to a slim margin of 51.9% to 48.1%, is most likely to unleash global turmoil. It would not only weaken the EU economically and politically, but would equally be a blow to the European scientific projects, which in turn may adversely affect our entrepreneurial and innovation-drives. We, therefore, ought to ensure our preparedness to combat any similar challenge in the aftermath of Brexit. The new issue of SMS Journal of Entrepreneurship & Innovation, with twelve research papers and articles representing the intellectual strivings of a new set of authors, is expected to be matching to your cognitive tastes. The Journal has been striving to bring together the views of all the relevant epistemological stakeholders on a common platform for causing a continuous learning and development. Your feedback, suggestions, and contemporary article contributions will go a long way in making the publication one of the most resourceful knowledge-reservoir in the country for the relevant domain. All the contributors to this issue deserve our heartfelt thanks, and I on behalf of the Editorial Board hereby do so. We further seek a similar patronage of the Advisory Board for the great mission of 'SMS Journal of Entrepreneurship & Innovation' to be attained. I close with warm wishes.

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The quality of public finance in the light of fiscal governance concept: implications for the European Union countries

Equilibrium ◽

10.24136/eq.2018.020 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 411-426

Author(s):

Aneta Kargol-Wasiluk ◽

Anna Wildowicz-Giegiel

Keyword(s):

Public Finance ◽

Descriptive Analysis ◽

Value Added ◽

Principal Component ◽

Research Area ◽

Point Of View ◽

Fiscal Rules ◽

The European Union ◽

The Eu

Research background: The research area on the quality of public finance (QPF) appears to be intellectually attractive. In the light of the challenges of the 21st century, public finance should be characterized by adequate quality, ensuring effective implementation of the economic functions of government. The problem of QPF is increasingly more frequent in the face of a deteriorating fiscal situation of most countries in Europe and around the world. Hence, it is worth considering which factors determine the quality of public finance. Purpose of the article: This article aims to show the possibility of assessing the quality of public finance in the light of fiscal governance concept. The identification of the key components of QPF seems to be useful from the point of view of empirical research, and can be implemented to assess the quality of public finance in the EU–28. Methods: Descriptive analysis along with principal component analysis (PCA) was implemented to indicate dimensions of QPF. Findings & Value added: The quality of public finance consists of a well-designed fiscal rules (numerical and non-numerical) and institutions, as well as structural reforms. The obtained results allow to characterize the quality of public finance through the prism of six identified principal components. They have a mixed character, two of them are partly or totally related to the institutional aspects of public finance, which proves their importance in the process of improving the quality of public finance. Improving the quality of public finance remains a key challenge for policy makers in the EU. The growing impact of globalization and the aging population also cause the need to improve the qualitative aspects of fiscal policy. The study contributes to the literature on public finance, particularly in the empirical dimension through broadening the knowledge on institutional factors which can be used to measure QPF index. The results of research have certainly enriched the existing knowledge on the phenomenon of QPF and the ways of its measurement.

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EU Technology Platforms as a Tool to Ensure the Transport Infrastructure Competitiveness

Central Ukrainian Scientific Bulletin. Economic Sciences ◽

10.32515/2663-1636.2020.5(38).18-30 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 18-30

Author(s):

Olena Sushchenko ◽

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Volodymyr Yermachenko ◽

Keyword(s):

Research Area ◽

Transport Infrastructure ◽

The European Union ◽

Public And Private ◽

Research Activities ◽

Technology Platforms ◽

European Experience ◽

Technical Potential ◽

Three Phase ◽

The Eu

The article describes the capabilities and features of the European Union technology platforms using in ensuring the Ukraine's transport infrastructure competitiveness. The purpose of the article is to study and systematize the European experience in the functioning of EU technology platforms and identify areas for their use to ensure the Ukraine's transport infrastructure competitiveness. The functioning of technology platforms makes it possible to ensure the coordinated use of public and private resources for research activities in various industries, including in the field of transport and transport infrastructure. European technology platforms define the thematic areas within which the EU's science and technology priorities are formulated. Their goal is to promote the creation of a European Research Area by focusing the researchers’ efforts at both European and national levels. The most important goal of the technology platforms creating is the innovations and science-intensive technologies development of higher technological mode. EU technology platforms have significant resource, scientific, and technical potential, the use of which will significantly increase the transport industry and transport infrastructure competitiveness level. The expediency of the EU technological platforms using as a current tool for the economy sectors and industries innovative development is grounded. The components and main tasks of the technology platforms functioning are determined; a standard algorithm of the technology platforms formation and operation is presented. The three-phase process of the EU technology platforms activity is presented. The possibilities of ensuring and increasing the transport infrastructure competitiveness by using the EU technology platforms' resource and communication potential are shown.

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EU Innovation Performance Policies and the Economic Crisis: Innovation Policy and the Political Failure of Italy

International Conference on Eurasian Economies 2014 ◽

10.36880/c05.01145 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Marco Boschele

Keyword(s):

Economic Crisis ◽

Innovation Policy ◽

Knowledge Society ◽

Research Area ◽

White Paper ◽

Research And Innovation ◽

Eu Policies ◽

The Creation ◽

Political Failure ◽

The Eu

At EU level, measures to promote research and innovation became concrete with the creation of the European Research Area and the issuing of the White Paper on Governance in 2001. These were measures to tackle low economic growth and unemployment and to boost European innovation with the aid of science and technology. Nevertheless, the economic crisis of late 2008 has halted this process and exposed the lack of convergence across European and neighbour countries in innovative performance. Moreover, economically more affected countries have abandoned innovation policies as part of the austerity policies precisely dictated by the EU bureaucrats. This paper first discusses the EU policies towards the creation of the knowledge society and the effect of the crisis in relation to research and development. Secondly, the paper will analyze the case of Italy and how it has failed to keep up with some of its other European neighbours in terms of investment on knowledge, arguing that lack of such investment make countries less equipped and more dependent on knowledge generated in other places.

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The European Research Area: in quest of the Lisbon goals

Acta Agraria Debreceniensis ◽

10.34101/actaagrar/35/2812 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 73-79

Author(s):

József Mikita

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

New Technologies ◽

Technological Development ◽

Research Area ◽

Ageing Population ◽

European Research Area ◽

European Research ◽

The European Union ◽

Research And Innovation ◽

The Eu

strong educational and scientific knowledge basie is one of Europe's traditional key assets that has made it possible for our continent to become world class in several research fields. Despite these great achievements, the position of the European research and technological development (RTD) potential is currently being challenged by a rapidly changing global competition, including the two main rivals, the US and Japan. The European Union (EU) is behind these countries as regards research and innovation output. Moreover, European research is faced with theimplications of globalisation of markets and industries, digitalisation and new technologies, as well as a need to address societal issues such as an ageing population or climate change.At the same time, the European Union (EU) is facing the uneven distribution of RTD capacities and excellence within its own borders, especially the EU12 countries are lagging behind in thisrespect.In order to meet this twofold challenge the EU has to step up its efforts for the creation of a legitimate "European Research Area" that will make the EU more competitive on the international scene, and also encourage the less developed EU member states to invest more and better into research and innovation.

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Strategic Directions of Ukraine's Integration into the Educational, Research and Innovation Areas of the EU

Economic Herald of the Donbas ◽

10.12958/1817-3772-2021-3(65)-175-183 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 175-183

Author(s):

О. Vyshnevskyi ◽

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Educational Research ◽

Institutional Environment ◽

Research Area ◽

High Tech ◽

European Research Area ◽

European Research ◽

Research And Innovation ◽

The Creation ◽

The Eu

The purpose of the article is to determine the strategic directions for the integration of educational, research and innovation areas of Ukraine into the corresponding areas of the EU, taking into account the economic interests of Ukraine. These areas can be delimited from each other by the product they create. The product of the educational area is the reproduction of existing knowledge, of the research area is the creation of new knowledge (novation), of the innovation area – innovation. With regard to areas, three types of integration can be proposed: (1) complete; (2) partial; (3) element-wise. Complete integration of the two areas provides for the formation of a single institutional environment and the corresponding links. In this case, there is an institutional absorption of one area by another. Partial integration of areas will take place through their intersection. In this case, new elements are formed, which simultaneously have connections corresponding to the first and second areas, and the institutional environment becomes mixed. Element-wise integration occurs when elements from one area are integrated into another area. For instance, a researcher or student from country A migrates to country B for permanent residence. Based on statistical observations for 2013-2019 it can be argued that the results of the activities of the Ukrainian research area are used to a greater extent in the EU than the results of the EU research area in Ukraine. And ultimately, novations created in the Ukrainian research area are transformed into innovations in the European innovation area and returned (imported) to Ukraine in the form of final high-tech products. From the standpoint of ensuring the economic growth of Ukraine, the current path of integration processes is not optimal. The transformation of the Ukrainian educational, research and innovation areas into the subareas of the EU ensures, first of all, the economic growth (on an innovative basis) of the EU, and not of Ukraine. So, given that the European research area is only an instrument for achieving certain EU goals, then the unconditional inclusion of Ukraine to this instrument turns the Ukrainian area into its component. For the Ukrainian economy, the optimal strategic direction for integrating the educational, research and innovation areas of Ukraine and the EU is their synthesis through the creation of a single space at the intersection of the areas of Ukraine and the EU, as well as element-wise integration from the areas of the EU into the areas of Ukraine. As a result, the Roadmap for Ukraine’s Integration into the European Research Area requires revision.

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The Electronic Spatial Information System – tools for the monitoring of asbestos in Poland

Miscellanea Geographica ◽

10.2478/mgrsd-2014-0019 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 59-64 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Małgorzata Krówczyńska ◽

Ewa Wilk ◽

Bogdan Zagajewski

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Information System ◽

Spatial Information ◽

Local Level ◽

Research Area ◽

Level Of Detail ◽

The European Union ◽

Whole Process ◽

Monitoring Process ◽

The Eu

Abstract On January 1, 2005 the use of asbestos-containing products was banned in the European Union. According to the Act of 19 June 1997 banning the use of these products, their usage in Poland should be abated by the end of 2032. The whole process is being monitored by the Electronic Spatial Information System for the Monitoring of Asbestos Products Removal. The system design was based on a geodatabase. The research area of the study is the whole territory of Poland at the national, provincial and local level of detail. The monitoring process embraces spatial analysis through the preparation and interpretation of a range of maps. The results obtained from the deployed methods proved that the system has been useful for decision making purposes during the monitoring process. The proposed solutions were appreciated by the EU.

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